immigrant status
Foreign-born legal standing
Immigrant status is a person's legal classification regarding their presence in a country where they weren't born or aren't a citizen.
It encompasses categories like permanent resident, temporary visa holder, refugee, asylum seeker, or undocumented.
The term appears frequently in discussions of employment, benefits, and rights: Her immigrant status made her ineligible for federal student loans.
Checking or verifying immigrant status has become contentious in debates over policing and public services.
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- green cardU.S. residency document
- permanent residentOne who stays indefinitely
- path to citizenshipLegal process for immigrants
- citizenshipStatus as state member
deportation · undocumented · refugee · asylum · border · border patrol · papers · naturalization · alien · residency · documentation · homeland · crossing · detention · family separation · sponsor · anchor baby · work permit
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
- backgroundbackdrop, setting, scenery, scene, landscape
- work permitswork permit, work visa, work authorization, employment visa, temporary worker
immigrant, immigrate, immigration, immigrating, immigrated, immigrants, migrate, migrant, migration